From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is sitting on the gun barrel of a battleship which is labeled, "Soviet Mediterranean fleet build-up." The ship also has a hammer and sickle symbol on it....

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left, a large man labeled "KGB" sits in a plush chair reading a large book titled, "Our man in Tehran." Frowning, he is looking up...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan stand before a large graph on the wall that is labeled, "U.S.-Soviet relations." Both men look dismayed. The graph line trends up at first, then...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoons Collection. Cartoon by Pierre "Peb" Bellocq. Leonid Brezhner sits at a desk in a funeral home. He is talking on a telephone and reading over a pamphlet titled "Our Mideast plan for eternal peace." Alexei Kosygin...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet sailor sits with a Cuban woman at a table at the port. Behind them are two ships tied up, one labeled, "Soviet task force." The sailor is tickling the chin of the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a map of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union is shaped like a bear. Its mouth is open and beginning to eat Poland. A Soviet star is placed in the bear's forehead. The cartoon...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. At the bottom of the cartoon, a man labeled "Soviet support" is leaning over balancing a pyramid on his back. Lines around the pyramid indicate a precarious balance. The pyramid...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jim Lange. The head and front quarters of a large bear, marked with the hammer and sickle symbol and labeled "Soviet aggression," is shown at the right side of the cartoon. The bear is looking...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev leans toward a man holding a paper labeled, "Polish Party Congress." Brezhnev whispers, "Did you hear the one about the Russian who couldn't stand any more...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The front of a greeting card shows Leonid Brezhnez holding the Communist sickle and Mao Zedong the hammer, each threatening each other. Both men have their eyes closed. The...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bear with a hammer and sickle symble is in the lower foreground of the cartoon, with the background landscape labeled, "Sino-Soviet dispute." Above the bear in the air is a...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev's head is shown in space as if it is a planet or star. It is surrounded by other round heads moving in an orbit. One head is well outside the orbit and is...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Three pyramids are shown in this cartoon, set in Egypt, one in the foreground and two in the distance. The near pyramid is flattened on top and on it is a powder keg for a table...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ranan Lurie. Five cars are shown one behind another across the width of the cartoon. The car at far left is labeled "Arab terror" and is driven by Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Liberation...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro sit at a theater dressing room mirror. Brezhnev holds a pot of grease paint and an applicator, and his face is covered with the paint which...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An evil looking Soviet general holding flowers sits on top of a man in a hospital bed. The chart hanging from the end of the bed has "Tito" and a graph line moving up and down....

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is standing at the edge of a landmass (United States), and the U.S. Capitol dome is seen behind him under a night sky with a moon (left side of the cartoon). At...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is behind a podium that has a hammer and sickle symbol on it, yelling "The U.S. is guilty of adventurism!" He is waving his arms, and around him are jagged...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed in a tuxedo, is dancing with an empty ball gown labeled, "After Brezhnev, who?" A briefcase labeled, "Salt II treaty" is on the floor leaning against a...